While we love our fair share of fresh summer fruit plain and delicious on its own, the heat inspired us to use our friends’ fruit contributions in a liquid form, and our Farmstead Summer Sangria came to life.

Most folks associate the do-it-yourself movement with building bookshelves or birdhouses, saving money by making your own. But there’s another group of DIYers that play around with things like making cocoa and dry milk, homemade equivalents of processed food with healthier, better-quality ingredients.